by envisionmg | Jul 21, 2014 | Patron Review, Thriller
Reviewed by KimWhat would you do if you saw a car drive off the road, tried but failed to save the driver’s life, and found a satchel on the floor containing $500,000? Would you keep it or do the right thing and turn it into the police? This is the question...
by envisionmg | Jul 18, 2014 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by JimEric Jager’s Blood Royal may not take place at the time of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers (in fact, it takes place 200 years before in 1407) but it would be a good choice for anyone who likes Dumas or French history. It has street fights,...
by envisionmg | Jul 17, 2014 | Feature Series, The Literary World
In one place, for when you have more than a moment, links to articles and essays on Alexandre Dumas and his works of fiction (mostly, of course, The Three Musketeers).”The role of race in the life and literature of Alexandre Dumas: The episode that inspired the...
by envisionmg | Jul 16, 2014 | Biography, Discovery List, Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
“BBC AMERICA’s new co-production drama series, The Musketeers, is set on the streets of seventeenth century Paris, where law and order is an idea more than a reality. In addition to being King Louis XIII’s personal bodyguards, Athos, Aramis and Porthos stand...
by envisionmg | Jul 15, 2014 | Feature Series
Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers has been interpreted and reinterpreted and rereinterpreted in film, television and theater from before the age of film to the present day. Here are some clips and trailers from just a few versions of Dumas’ most famous...
